Month: April 2013

In this episode I’ll cover some of the enhancements to Group Policy (such as remote refresh and health checking). I also cover a handful of the new GPO’s themselves. As promised I’ve also put a quick list of the GPO’s in a spreadsheet linked on my blog:

In this episode I will cover the new data optimization and deduplication features of Windows Server 2012, how to turn it on, enable a volume, and manage it. Special thanks to my good friend and colleague Brent Caskey for the details and the lab itself! Enjoy!

In this episode I will cover the new iSCSI Target & Initiator built into Windows Server 2012. This is a quick how-to on creating a target, attaching to that target from the other side, and even making it shared storage for you to use in clusters.

If you’ve tried to move a SkyDrive older but you’ve noticed that the "Unlink SkyDrive" button is greyed out, and also seen the message that "This option is unavailable because you’re signed in on this PC with a Microsoft account. If you want to use a different account with SkyDrive, sign in on this PC with a different Microsoft account or add an account on this PC with the email address you want to use." (which is a very verbose but still not relevant message to your situation) you’ll want to follow the steps in this video. I also cover linked accounts, Microsoft accounts, local accounts, and domain connected accounts in this episode. So for a short episode, this one is pretty packed.

"This folder can’t be included because it is on a removable device." Have you ever tried to add flash or other removable media to your Windows 7 or Windows 8 libraries and gotten this error? Chris Davis, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer talks about a way to get around this problem.